tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18116770419246559142024-02-20T07:08:04.413-08:00Paint is Reddsgranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10893684481221030738noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1811677041924655914.post-2357351508152877512008-01-31T02:19:00.000-08:002008-01-31T23:54:05.857-08:001. Light in Stockton<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/2234472342_5354634057_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/2234472342_5354634057_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I started this painting with the intention of breaking two conventions that I've pretty much stuck to as a painter. The first- I find that most of my paintings can be too tight, and I wanted to try loosening up. The second convention is that I don't paint landscapes. I decided to try this one after being inspired by a painting I saw at a gallery called <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2201094684_fdf76026cd.jpg?v=0">No.108 Front Street of HuangJiaoPing</a> by Li Qiang. It has a beautiful sense of light, and although largely abstracted still creates a great sense of space. <div><br /></div><div>The goal then, for this painting: Loose landscape with a sense of space and light.<br /><br />The light reminded me of a photo I'd taken of Stockton, New Jersey from across the shore of the Delaware river in New Hope, Pennsylvania (not to far from where Washington crossed, as a matter of fact). I used that as a base for the painting, but in an effort to work 'looser', I abandoned the photo pretty quickly (the original is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/92028021@N00/2231937039/in/set-72157603680913316/">here</a>).<br /><br />The biggest change from the photograph came when I decided that the main street of Stockton needed a glowing ball of light in the center of it. To me, the painting all of a sudden became about some mysterious event in the dark of night. Later, a little happy accident gave me the idea to put a shadowy figure - almost unnoticeable under the big tree on the left side of the painting. So now there's a story. I don't what the story is, but it's there.</div><div><br /></div><div>I quite like the result. Its nothing like the painting - or the photograph that inspired it. <br /><br />Here is a detail of the painting:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2232646624_1351a67f04.jpg?v=0"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2232646624_1351a67f04.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /></div>dsgranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10893684481221030738noreply@blogger.com8